No 3 (2023)

The current state of the labor market dictates the necessity to develop personal and professional competencies in the current educational process of Kazakhstan. A modern specialist should both be educated and capable of generating knowledge and be able to respect and appreciate the opinions of other people, to negotiate with them to reach agreement, be active, emotional, communicative, and organized. Moreover, currently, much attention is paid to pedagogical competence in the professional training of a specialist – a future choreographer. The authors consider the development of personal and professional competencies of a future choreographer in the process of studying folk dance at the university as the main way to form pedagogical competence. Theoretical studies of the development of the future choreographer pedagogical competence in the process of studying Kazakh folk dance through the unity of the competencies identified by the authors – intellectual-pedagogical, communicative (empathy, extraversion), informational, and reflective – were carried out. The formation of these competencies helps in transforming knowledge about the content of Kazakh dance into knowledge about teaching and educating through Kazakh dance. Studying the history of national ballet art, analyzing its libretto, comparing and collating with modern national ballets will allow the future teacher-choreographer to reflect adequately in choreography the spiritual and moral foundations of national identity, culture, traditions, authenticity of epic traditions and awakening of national artistic and aesthetic consciousness. Through the involvement of students-choreographers in creative groups, creative thinking and personal qualities are awakened and activated, educational and creative activities are carried out, difficulties are overcome, and creative tasks are solved. The authors formulate proposals for the development of professional and personal qualities of students-choreographers. The authors consider the development and understanding of spiritual and cultural values, activity, self-analysis, performance skills of students-choreographers in the process of studying national dance at the culture and arts university as a solution to the problem of developing pedagogical competence.

This paper analyses the influence of different social support on the effect of science education in rural primary schools, based on the data of rural primary school teachers in 5 re­gions of Heilongjiang Province in China. The study found that the independent effects of the five social supports such as economic support, the support of science education venues, the guidance of science education and teaching on-site, improvement training of science teacher quality, serve as a science education counsellor on the effect of science education in rural primary schools were significant. The improvement training of science teacher quality and the guidance of science education and teaching on-site still has a great influence on the effect of science education in rural primary schools under the background of different school characteristics, and under sufficient and insufficient capital of science teaching. However, the impact of economic support, the support of science education venues, serving as a science education counsellor is not significant. Therefore, in order to better provide high-quality social support for science education in rural primary schools, a multi-subject science education alliance, led by the county educational administrative departments, should be established to improve coordination and matching degree of social support resource. A science education demand evaluation system, should be established in rural primary schools, to enhance the accuracy of social support services. The quality improvement of science teachers should be taken as the core of social support to clarify the direction of social support.

The level of hedonic well-being is a significant component of personality subjective well-being. However, there is no sufficient data on predictors of hedonic well-being in adolescence. Therefore, this issue seems relevant for research in the context of adolescence. Knowing what personality traits influence the level of hedonic well-being at this age can be valuable when organizing preventive and corrective work with adolescents. The paper presents data of an empirical study of a regression model of the influence of personality traits on hedonic well-being in adolescence. The study involved 80 adolescents from secondary educational institutions of Novosibirsk aged 13–17 years. The author used the following techniques: BFI-2 adapted by Yu.A. Ka­lu­gi­na and S.A. Shche­be­ten­ko, TEIQue-ASF adapted by E.N. Pen­ki­na and O.A. Sham­shi­ko­va, “Life Satisfaction Scale” adapted by D.A. Le­on­tye­va and E.N. Osin, a PANAS analogue developed by E.N. Osin. The predictive ability of personality traits in relation to the hedonic aspect of subjective well-being in adolescence was identified. The emotional intelligence trait has a significant impact on the affective component of hedonic well-being, in particular: high indices of “Positive attitude towards life” influence positive affect (β=0.34), and high indices of “Managing one’s emotions and behavior” influence negative affect (β=−0.30). Among the Big Five personality traits, the neuroticism trait has a negative influence on positive affect (β=−0.25) and life satisfaction (β=−0.25), but influences positively negative affect (β=0.52); the agreeableness trait influences negative affect (β=−0.18) and life satisfaction (β=0.31); the conscientiousness trait influences positive affect (β=0.30).

News is an integral part of the life of a modern human. Viewing news sources and social media became the leading way people spend their free time in many countries. Some researchers state that audiences deliberately choose to read negative news. The information influence is psychological in nature. The development of digital technologies creates both opportunities and threats. The purpose of the study is to determine the structural components of the perception of negative news on the Internet and record their psychological content. The authors used a qualitative research method. Using a semi-structured interview, a maximally variable sample of respondents was surveyed. To process the interview data, thematic analysis was used. The study involved 13 people aged 20–45 years. This age category most actively consumes news content from the Internet. Data validity was achieved by meeting the criteria of structural justifiability, consistency of interpretive procedures, and referent adequacy. The study identified a multi-level model consisting of cognitive, emotional and psychophysiological aspects of the perception of negative news. The following negative impact of negative news on the mental sphere of life was established: intense negative emotional sufferings, depressed mood, disturbance of sleep, asthenia. When experiencing long-term negative emotional and psychophysiological symptoms, the respondents use the strategy of avoiding and rejecting negative news.